Released: March 5, 1982
Songwriter: Phil Collins
Producer: Genesis
See the lonely man there on the corner
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he waits every day now
He's just waiting for something to show
And nobody knows him, and nobody cares
'Cause there's no hidin' place
There's no hidin' place
For you
Lookin' everywhere at no one
He sees everything and nothing at all, oh
When he shouts, nobody listens
Where he leads, no one will go, oh
He's a lonely man there on the corner
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he waits every day now
He's just waiting for something to show
And nobody knows him, and nobody cares
'Cause there's no hidin' place
There's no hidin' place
For you and me
Are we just like all the rest?
We're lookin' too hard for somethin' he's got
Or movin' too fast to rest
But like a monkey on your back, you need it
But do you love it enough to leave it all?
Just like the lonely man there on the corner
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he waits every day now
He's just waiting for that somethin' to show
Who the lonely man there on the corner
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he's there every day now
He's just waiting for that somethin' to show
Who the lonely man there on the corner
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he waits every day now
He's just waiting for that somethin' to show
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he waits every day now
He's just waiting for something to show
And nobody knows him, and nobody cares
'Cause there's no hidin' place
There's no hidin' place
For you
Lookin' everywhere at no one
He sees everything and nothing at all, oh
When he shouts, nobody listens
Where he leads, no one will go, oh
He's a lonely man there on the corner
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he waits every day now
He's just waiting for something to show
And nobody knows him, and nobody cares
'Cause there's no hidin' place
There's no hidin' place
For you and me
Are we just like all the rest?
We're lookin' too hard for somethin' he's got
Or movin' too fast to rest
But like a monkey on your back, you need it
But do you love it enough to leave it all?
Just like the lonely man there on the corner
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he waits every day now
He's just waiting for that somethin' to show
Who the lonely man there on the corner
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he's there every day now
He's just waiting for that somethin' to show
Who the lonely man there on the corner
What he's waiting for, I don't know
But he waits every day now
He's just waiting for that somethin' to show
more tracks from the album
Genesis Archive 2: 1976–1992
- Entangled
- I’d Rather Be You
- Paperlate
- It’s Gonna Get Better
- You Might Recall
- Illegal Alien
- Hearts on Fire
- Feeding the Fire
- Duke’s Travels
- Vancouver
- Dreaming While You Sleep
- It’s Yourself
- Evidence of Autumn
- The Brazilian
- Naminanu
- Submarine
- The Day the Light Went Out
- On the Shoreline
- Ripples
- I Can’t Dance
- Land of Confusion
- Invisible Touch
- Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
- Your Own Special Way
- Pigeons
- Inside and Out
- Burning Rope
- Deep in the Motherlode
- The Lady Lies
- No Reply at All
- Man on the Corner
- Open Door
- Do the Neurotic
- Mama (Work in Progress)
From the albums
- Abacab (1981)
- Genesis Archive 2: 1976–1992 (2000)
Genesis popular songs
- That’s All
- Land of Confusion
- Supper’s Ready
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
- I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
- Mama
- Invisible Touch
- I Can’t Dance
- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- Carpet Crawlers
- Jesus He Knows Me
- Firth of Fifth
- In Too Deep
- Follow You Follow Me
- The Cinema Show
- In the Cage
- The Battle of Epping Forest
- Fly on a Windshield
- The Musical Box
- Ripples
- Watcher of the Skies
- No Son of Mine
- A Trick of the Tail
- Back in N.Y.C.